Word: performing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...without this ability will be likely to perform well what Acheson once defined as "the central task of a foreign office: to recognize emerging problems in time . . . and prepare to deal with them...
...Salvador's government seemed curiously unwilling to assist in the investigation. No ballistics tests could be performed, for example, because military doctors refused to recover the bullets or perform autopsies; they claimed not to have the proper surgical face masks. The U.S. team was not allowed to interview potential murder witnesses, including the local justice of the peace, who signed a hasty burial permit and presumably had information about the killings...
When J. Edgar Hoover, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, died in 1972, crime declined in the nation's capital for the first time in years. Now Cambridge's only breakfast table daily gets its chance to perform a public service; we expect that muggings and bank robberies and even double parking will continue as rampant as ever in the Square, but there will be none of the daily variety of Crime, not until January 5, that...
...since 1967, when he first joined the Governor's staff. Says Edward Thomas, Meese's chief aide: "He can hash out a complex issue until it can be stated as simply as A, B, C. It puts the Governor right at ease." After Jan. 20, Meese will perform much the same role as coordinator of the inner circle of Cabinet-level officials...
...first time ever, the aquawomen also boast a bunch of sophomores who can be counted upon to perform consistently well. Terri "Tune" Frick shone in the season opener against B.U., with strong swims in the 400 I.M. and the 200-yard butterfly, and has finished close behind Zimic and Floyd in several freestyle events...